"She was as lovely as ever, my Jessie Anne. I paused for a moment, taking her beauty in, laying up this vision of her in the deepest and most secret place of my mind, allowing the sight of her to renew..."
- Karl A. Bacon
"It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of those who had paid their vows as having escaped shipwreck, and would have him say whether he did not..."
- Francis Bacon
"Look upon good books; they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble: be you but true to yourself...and you shall need no other comfort nor counsel."
"The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."
"For while it is of no particular importance how many things you start in life, it is of great importance how many you finish!"
- Josephine Daskam Bacon
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea."
"The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them."
"I wonder why it is that the countries with the most nobles also have the most misery?"
"Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed."
- Bacon
"Nature to be commanded must be obeyed."